Wallace Lyman Orcutt student notes from Yale University School of Medicine
Scope and Contents
The notebooks contain Orcutt's notes from medical school courses and laboratories including physiology by Russell Chittenden and Yandell Henderson, pathology, bacteriology, pharmacology, histology, therapeutics by Oliver T. Osborne, and clinics by George Blumer and Wilder Tileston. The histology notes contain illustrations colored in pencil. The bacteriology notes are in an illustrated notebook printed especially for the bacteriology course at Yale. The physiology notes contain drawings and tracings from a kymograph or similar device.
Dates
- 1908 - 1910
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
1 Linear Feet (2 boxes, containing 12 notebooks)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The notebooks contain Orcutt's notes from medical school courses including physiology courses by Russell Chittenden and Yandell Henderson, pathology, bacteriology, pharmacology, histology, therapeutics by Oliver T. Osborne, and clinics by George Blumer and Wilder Tileston. The histology notes contain illustrations colored in pencil. The bacteriology notes are in an illustrated notebook printed especially for the bacteriology course at Yale. The physiology notes contain tracings from a kymograph or similar device.
Biographical / Historical
Wallace Lyman Orcutt was born in Sutton, Vermont in 1883. He graduated from Yale University School of Medicine in 1911, and served as a general practitioner in West Newbury, Massachusetts.
Source
- Title
- Wallace Lyman Orcutt student notes from Yale University School of Medicine
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Toby A. Appel
- Date
- 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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